We should be able to say, “This is my truth,” and have that truth stand without a hundred clamoring voices shouting, giving the impression that multi… - Roxane Gay

As Syreeta McFadden noted, “Only in America can a dead black boy go on trial for his own murder.

I would definitely like to tear down this wall I've built around myself, because I don't need it anymore. And I know that intellectually, and on good days, I know that emotionally. I don't want to be thin, I want to be smaller, because I just do. I think it makes so many things easier just on a day-to-day basis, and also I have no small amount of vanity, so I just want to be able to find cuter clothes. Sometimes it's really basic things that I would like for myself.

"When women respond negatively to misogynistic or rape humor, they are "sensitive" and branded as "feminist," a word that has, as of late, become a catchall term for "woman who does not tolerate bullshit.